Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-14

amined for admission into church mem
5 bership, he was asked: "Whose work was
> your salvation?" and he answered.: "Part
5 mine and part Gods" Then the examiner
J and the answer was: II opposed God oil I
could, and He did the rest'" Oh, the
height of it, the depth of it, the length of
5 it, the breadth of it, the grace of God.
Mr.. Fletcher having written pamphlet
that pleased the King, the King offered to
, compensate him, and Fletcher answered
J "There is only one thing want, and that
is more grace" Yes, my blood bought
hearers, grace to live by and grace to die
by. Grace that saved the publican, that
saved LYDIA that saved the dying thief,
that saved the iniler, that saved me. But
the riches of that grace will not be fully
understood until Heaven breaks in upon
the soul. An old Scotchman, who had
been soldier in one Of the European wars,
was sick and dying in one of our American
hospitals. His one desire was to see Scot
land and his old home, and once again
walk the heather of the Highlands, and
hear the bagpipes of the Scotch regiments.
The night that the old Scotch soldier died
a young man, somewhat reckless but kind
hearted, got company of musicians 10
come and play under the old soldiers VIM
dow, ana among the instruments there was
Il bagpipe. The instant that the musicians
began the dying old man in delirium
said: "What's that? what's that? Why,
it's the regiments coming home. That's
the tune; yes, that's the tune. Thank God,
| have got home once moren "Ronny
Scotland aud Bonny Doom" were the last
words he uttered as he passed up to the
highlands of the better country. And
there are here to-day hundreds homesick
for Heaven; some because you have SO
many bereavements, some because you
have SO many temptations, some because
you have 80 many ailments homesick, very
homesick, for the fntherland of Heaven,
and the music that you want to hear now
is the song of free grace, AMI the music
you want to hear when you die is free
grace, and forever before tie throne Of
God you will sing of the "grase of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who, though FL was rich, for
. your sakes became poor"
, Yes, yes for your sakes! It was not on
pleasure excursion that He came, for it
was all pain. 1t was not or astronomical
exploration, for He knew thi, world as we'll
before He alighted as afterward. 1t was
not because He was compelled TO come, for
. He volunteered. 1t was not because it
was easy, for He knew thst it would be
, thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst,
and vociferation of angry mobs. For your
sakes! Wipe away your tears. 10 for
give your wrongdoing, to companionship
, your loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to
} sit with you by the new-made grave, to
bind up your wounds in he ugly battle
r with the world and bring yor home at last,
lSindling up the mists that fall on your dy-
ing vision with the sunlight Of glorious
| morn. For your sakes! No, 1 will change
that. Paul will not care, and Christ will
not care if change it, for Unjust get into
the blessedness of the text myself. and SO
say: "For our sakes!" For we all have
/ our temptations, and bereavements, and
conflicts. For our sakes! We who de-
! serve for our sins to be exratriated into o
world as much poorer than this earth was
! poorer than heaven. For our sakes!
But what fruitful coming down to take
, us gloriously up. When Artaxerxes was
| hunting Tirebazus, who was attending him
} showed the King q rent in his garment.
The King said: "How shall 1 mend it,"
, "By giving it to me-" said Tirebazus.
Then the King gave him the robe, but
, commanded him never to wear it as it would
! be inappropriate. See the startling and
r comforting fact, while our Prince throws
3 off the habit He not only allows us to wear
3 it, but commands us to wear it, and it will
/. become US we'll, and for the over-ties Of
Q our spiritual state we may put on the
our sakes! Oh, the personality Of this re-
ligion! Not an abstraction, not an arch
under which we walk to behold elaborate
masonry, not an ice castle like that which
Empress Elizabeth, of Russia, over 100
years ago ordered constructed, winter with
its trowel of crystal cementing the huge
block that had been quarried from THE
frozen rivers of the north, but father 5
house with a wide hearth cracking a
q inspiration, and light, and cheer, some
3 thing we can take into our hearts, and
homes, and business, recreatiuns, and
joys, and sorrows. Not an unmanageable
gift like the galley presented to Ptolemy,
f which required 4, 200 men to row, and its
draught of water was SO great that it could
, not come near the shore, but something
y you can run up any stream of annoyance,
% however shallow. Enrichment now. en-
: richment forever
\ Right about face! for you are going in the
v wrong direction. While you are in a
r favorable mood for it, enter into life. Here
| and Just now decide everything that makes
). for peace and Heaven. Agassiz says that
0 he has stood at one place in the Alps where
a he could throw chip into the water in one
direction, and it would roll on into the
d German Ocean, or he could throw chip
e into the water in another direction, and it
!. would reach the Back Sea by the Danube,
or he could throw n chip in another direc-
' ton, and it would enter the Mediterranean
o by the Rhone. How far apart the Med-
v terranean, and the Black Sea, and the
+ German Ocean? Standing to-day on this
o Alps of Gospel privilege, you can project
a your soul into right currents, and it will roll
n on into the ocean of life, or project it in
4 the wrong direction, and it will roll into
s the sea Of death. But how far apart the
: two distances! May God help us to appre-
h ciate more and more the momenteus mean
G ing of our text! The seven wise men OF
. Greece were chiefly known each for one
g apophthegm; Scion for the saying .KnoN
0 myself" Fernandez for the saying: Moth
: ing is impossible to industry" Chic fol
the saying: Consider the end;" Thales
n for the saying: "Suretyship is the precur-
t sor of ruin" And Paul, distinguished fol-
Y a thousand utterances, might well afford to
Y be memorable for the saying: "You know
: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
r though lie was rich, yet for your sakes be-
II came poor, that ye through His poverty
might be RICH"
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